North Carolina · Nonprofit
ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES
ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,599,373 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($8,621,911). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $9.3M
What Rowan Helping Ministries does
Mission
Direct various programs and services designed to provide shelter, food, clothing and various other types of assistance for the needy. Includes the kitchen, the homeless shelter, the clothing center, crisis assistance, etc.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Crisis assistance network (can) provides financial help, groceries and clothing to individuals in need. During the year ended 06/30/25, can assisted 2,435 individuals and distributed 999,528 pounds of groceries to 4,751 families.
$2,812,521 spent54% of program spendingMiscellaneous programs include: eagle's nest, which is transitional housing for single parents; eagle's nest ii, which is transitional housing for single individuals; case management and budget counseling; rhm west and rhm east, which serve western & eastern rowan county; jeannie's kitchen, and food for thought which provided 32,890 weekend bags of food to food-insecure students.
$1,406,204 spent27% of program spendingThe shelter for homeless individuals. During the year ended 06/30/25, rhm provided 28,639 overnights to 777 different men, women and children. New tomorrows had 543 participants.
$1,025,685 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,244,410.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $5.3M to $7.6M (+44%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 25% · 2018 22% · 2019 8% · 2020 22% · 2021 45% · 2022 21% · 2023 16% · 2024 20% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Matthew Marsh
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $583k → $1.7M.
9 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 94% · 2019 79% · 2020 61% · 2021 77% · 2022 75% · 2023 69% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
61% of ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
77% of ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.6M that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.7M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$6.7M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES?
- ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,599,373 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($8,621,911). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $11,599,373 in grants to ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $8,621,911 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 45 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing